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James Lankford: “Obviously we have hundreds of thousands, up to millions of people that are current in the country awaiting a hearing…”

On the recordApril 18, 2023
Obviously we have hundreds of thousands, up to millions of people that are current in the country awaiting a hearing, that are traveling at will around the country right now, that we do not know the criminal history of those individuals, and it is one of the threats that we do face currently, that we may very well have individuals with extensive criminal histories in their home country because people are coming from all over the world, and we just do not know who they are and do not have a process because we are not detaining those.
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James Lankford
Republican · Oklahoma

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Lankford highlights concerns about unknown criminal histories of migrants awaiting hearings.

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